Congressional Issues 2010
DOMESTIC ISSUES
Police

The government's police forces no longer provide security. They arrest and imprison (sometimes) criminals after they have already committed their crimes.

Security is best provided by agencies that compete for customers in the Free Market.

• Privatize the Government Police Monopoly - LewRockwell
• Privatize the Police | Mises Wire
• How disbanding police can lead to less crime and less conflict | The Daily Bell
• How Policing Works in a Privatized City : Anything Peaceful : Foundation for Economic Education
• Where Do Cops Come From? - EPautos
• "Community Policing," East and West
• Policing Aggression (Ruwart)
• Law-Enforcement Socialism
• ‘Where Are Libertarians on Police Reform?’ Right Where We’ve Always Been. – Reason.com
• Outside of some small academic and activist circles, most Americans reject the radical ideology of socialism as it pertains to the economy as a whole. Hardly anyone believes that the state should maintain the means of production and that private enterprise should be abolished. Most people understand the folly of divorcing all industry from private property ownership and running an economic sector completely through central management.
        It is interesting, then, that most people still believe in total socialism when in comes to providing services of security and justice.
        There is a considerable literature exploring how the market might handle law, but rarely are people exposed to it. Murray Rothbard, Bruce Benson, David Friedman, Robert Murphy, Samuel Konkin and others have made insightful contributions to such theory. However, we do not need to know how exactly the market would deal with this to know that socialism has institutional limitations that prevent it from achieving its advertised goals; and there is no reason not to apply this understanding to the question of law enforcement.
• David Friedman
  • Chapter 29: POLICE, COURTS, AND LAWS---ON THE MARKET
  • Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case
    • My response to an anarchist FAQ discussing medieval Iceland
  • Anarchy and Efficient Law
  • Law as a Private Good
  • Rational Criminals and Profit-Maximizing Police
  • Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the 18th Century
  • Efficient Institutions for the Private Enforcement of Law

Stoyan Panchev Yesterday at 1:26pm · Washington, DC ·  Няма как да има частна полиция...абсурд Another, even larger, private police force is that of Duke University, which has 176 full-time security employees, including 83 non-deputized security officers and 68 deputized private police officers. With a jurisdiction of 8,000 acres (about half the size of Manhattan), 14,000 students, 34,000 employees, and numerous visitors, the Duke Police deal with a greater population than 95 percent of police departments nationwide. The Duke force fields 30,000 calls per year, yet it doesn't have arrest quotas, tanks, or unmanned drones, and its members do not walk around in riot gear.

America's Founding Fathers recognized that religion and morality prevent crime, not jackbooted-thugs-with-a-badge on every corner.

• When the People Were the Police
• Are Cops Constitutional? Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, 2001

Citizens should be more vigilant against police abuses, because the police are not subject to the restraining forces of the Free Market.

• Police Conduct (95)
• Police Tactics and Misconduct
• Police Conduct: Cops and political conventions
• Police Militarization: When good cops go bad
• Police (jbs)
• POLICE (LPCalif)
• The Latest Challenge to the Miranda Rule

• It's Safer to Be a Cop Than a Farmer

• The FBI
• Rewarding FBI failure
• Continuing Scandals at the FBI
• Will Filegate Bring Down the FBI?
• Interim Report on the Crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Actions of the NTSB and the FBI
• TWA 800 Investigation Cover-Up: The Proof
• The Syrian Connection to the Dhahran Bombing
• Misconduct Allegations Arise in FBI Lab Probe
• FBI Suspends Oklahoma City Whistle-blower
• DOJ Report on FBI Crime Lab
• The FBI and Terrorism
• Why Congress should withdraw all funding from the FBI

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The Police have no legal duty to protect you

• Dial 911 and Die
• Just Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection
• Thought You Should Know - To Preserve and Protect
• Legal Snares for the Unwary Law-Abiding Citizen
• Richard W. Stevens on the Police

Police Abuse

Police are abused when their skills are wasted on pathetic losers who do not initiate force or defraud anyone. The "War on Drugs" is an abuse of police. It is completely unconstitutional. It encourages lawlessness on the part of the police.

Listen to the tape secretly made by the wife of a pathetic dope-smoking loser during his arrest. The police whose voices are heard on the tape are using the power of the sword -- coercion and violence -- to make an arrest in the "War on Drugs." The officers are trying to force this low-level drug dealer to sign a form giving police "permission" to search his home.

When we forget the Constitution and the American ideal of "Liberty Under God," both government and the people descend into the pit.

The Two Major Parties have severe cases of amnesia.

Video by StephenGordon

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See also: The Expanding Federal Police Power
The Federal Government should not be involved in local police issues. The federalizing of local police is a dangerous trend which threatens our liberties.

• Federal Takeover of LAPD
• Local Police Under Seige
• Issues In Focus - Police
• Abuses in Law Enforcement

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